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Actually, I hope you won’t fight… but I know Hot Bloggers like to engage in all kinds of stuff and I am one track this weekend, so…. be nice… and go at it….
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” ā some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it ā I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy namedā” “Yeah, sure ā you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
The further i get away from the Good Shepard, the more i like it. I liked it when i saw it, though i thought it was a bit long, but with each passing day it seems to resonate with me more and more.
Like Children of Men, i want to see it again to really try and take a little more of it in.
Oh, and i heard Gene Shallit give a bad review to Good German. Is that possible? Gene Shallit giving a bad review?
Gene Shalit still does reviews?
Most of you have probably seen this by now, but for those who haven’t:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2007/01/blog_whisperers.php
Got some much needed time this week to get caught up on some missed flicks. Finally saw Little Miss Sunshine and thought it was…fine. It is perhaps the perfect movie that the word ‘fine’ could be applied to. Not bad, not great…fine.
Perhaps with all of this Oscar talk it set expectations too high, but it was neither the hilarious comedy people are saying, nor the clever social satire people are touting it as.
In essence, it plays like a much more serious version of National Lampoon’s Vacation of 26 years ago; right down to Alan Arkin’s fate and the scene where they get pulled over by the police officer on the highway. At some point I thought they were using that old Chevy Chase chestnut as a more than rough template. I also suspect the Chase film will still be being watched while this is long forgotten.
Yes, I am saying Vacation is a more pointed satire of middle America than LMS.
The actor’s are all good but every one of them has a fairly one note character arc and if it is intended as a satire of ‘middle America’ or ‘beauty pageants’, then there is not enough content for this to be very potent. It would also make the ending rather contradictory.
On the plus side, there were some very nice widescreen compositions; good use of locations and Mychael Danna, as usual, supplies a superb score; but that this is being heralded as much as it is, really shows the lack of originality in current Hollywood films.
Understand I do not think this is a bad film. I think it is just…fine.
Caught up with DREAMGIRLS and liked it well enough, but wasn’t blown away. It’s gorgeous to look at and the performances are almost uniformly terrific. It’s actually the original music that left me the coldest. The stand-out number, “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” still packs a punch, but so little else does. I found myself warming to the new songs more, oddly enough. Still, as underwhelmed as I was by the whole thing, I will be very glad to see Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson take their Oscars. I would love to see that happen on both counts.
Got my HAPPY FEET on a screener and was very entertained. Lovely scoring and song mixing and beautiful animation. Even working in animation, Miller’s grasp of motion, action, and terror is beyond compare. I want more George Miller in the future.
Hoping to catch CHILDREN OF MEN and PAN’S LABYRINTH this week. I have the screeners, but don’t want to miss the chance to see them first on the big screen.
C’mon, people, this is supposed to be a fight thread, and none of you are on the ball. So, once again, it falls to me…
FUCK ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
F… A.. O.. Y.. in your tiny, puckered hineys!
Just caught “Letters from Iwo Jima.” Both myself and the other three people in the entire theater thought it was better than “Flags.” The part where the fighting starts is interesting in comparing the two movies. The difference in perspectives is striking although those scenes share some haunting similarities. “Letters” is simply more cohesive than “Flags.” I also caught “Notes on a Scandal.” It seemed to me at least that this is a movie where the acting elevates the film above its source material. “Pan’s” is next on my list. With crap like “The Hitcher” hitting theaters, it’s good we have the December leftovers to watch.
CNN abbounces the Official Funniest Joke in the World. Here is is.
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.
He gasps: “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator says: “Calm down, I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: “OK, now what?”
I’m copying and pasting that joke. It actually made me smile.
NOSTRADAMUS-I-AM -> who predicted a dvd screener of Dreamgirls would soon be leaked (along with many others)? Me! What do I win?
Best DVD I bought all week- 24 season 6 (first 4 eps). Because I missed it on tv. You know what? I would just buy these dvds every 4 weeks if they released them that way. Seriously. $9 every four weeks… I’d love that.
Watching DREAMGIRLS on DVD seems to rob it of one of the main things it has going for it. Whoever gets their kicks from that bit of piracy will get a second rate experience as punishment.
I saw INLAND EMPIRE last night with David Lynch in attendance! Before the film started, he came out and introduced none other than Special Agent Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak, duh) who did a couple of songs. Then the film rolled…and….wow. It’s nearly impossible to review.
Typical Lynch weirdness on steroids but still so, so, so many great scenes and great shots. He shot it all on a PD-150 and edited it himself too. It’s exciting to think of Lynch exploring DV. INLAND EMPIRE is basically a David Lynch Dogme film. Great stuff…if you like that kind of stuff.
Too bad you Oscar prognasticators haven’t seen it because Laura Dern’s performance is the best of the year without question. She totally nails every note and every emotion. She could use a buzz…other than Lynch sitting in a lawn chair on LaBrea. After the film there was a fun Q&A then more Isaak who got Lynch to play maraca on “Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing.” Nice way to spend a Friday night!
I’ve always been vehemently opposed to DVD Oscar screeners because the same leaks happen every year and will always happen every year no matter what, so these companies are just throwing their money out the window. Financially speaking, it’s idiotic.
I don’t think that the people who find the dvd screeners on the internet or buy them on the street are worried about a “second rate experience”. Which is my argument why you don’t have the dvd screeners in the first place. You either force them to goto the theaters or make them wait for the dvd.
“Whoever gets their kicks from that bit of piracy will get a second rate experience as punishment.”
What did those of us who saw it in theaters do to deserve the same punishment?
ive already seen enough bootlegs floating around to tell you that there isn’t an academy screener out there that hasn’t been pirated already.
i walked into a friend’s house and he had on a copy of children of men which looked picture perfect. after chastizing him, i sat down and watched it for a few minutes and wondered whhy the academy sends out these screeners. does the box office potential of award season and the cost involved in producing them equal the amount they lose on pirated copies and lost box office revenue?
Seeing Iwo Jima again, I was in shock all over again that Tom Stern wasn’t nommed by the ASC. Was there a more stunningly beautiful movie this year? Is it the Gordon Willis bias against B/W factor?
I can’t really argue with either sky_captaiun or jeffmcm. My point with GIRLS is that what value the film has is serverely diminished by the non-big-screen experience. That’s a shame. Not that the film suddenly becomes a work of unbridled genius when it’s projected. Just that if you see it that way you can enjoy it just a little bit more than watching it smaller and with an anti-piracy disclaimer popping up regularly to distract you from the movie.
I agree that we should work harder to get the voters to the theater. Especially if we’re going to watse time at the ceremony exhorting people to return to the theaters like last year. And especially given the access to screenings and special theaters that most people on these lists have. I know screeners make it easier for a small film to grab attention and that it makes a lot of it convenient, but I also think a lot of things get lost in the translation just so we don’t tax anybody’s time and give them a souvenier that shows they’re on a particular distribution list.
i could argue with jeff for days.
not about this, but i’m on a wide variety of other topics.
I liked Inland Empire myself, Petaluma. Laura Dern was indeed terrific, though I thought Harry Dean Stanton stole the show (small as his part was).
Laura Dern was great and it shows that these are awards more about how much money you can pump into publicity than anything else.
Anghus: not interested.
At this point, after so many years, is anyone under the delusion that the oscar race is just like a political race. Whoever pumps the most money into the campaign usually wins.
I always come back to the same point:
does the money pumped into these films equate to box office dollars?
I say no.
Spending some time alone away from the family in chilly Northern Wisconsin and watching lots of rented videos. Just finished Hero, which is beautiful. Having seen Flying Daggers and Golden Flower already made Hero even more interesting. It also confirmed my thought that GF is a major step down from FD.
I also watched U93. Finally. I can fully understand why it is on so many critics lists and why it has such support on this blog. But it made me awfully uncomfortable at times. I think it is the fact that any person on that plane could have been me. I suspect that unfortable feeling has hurt its Oscar chances.
I got a nice bit of enjoyment out of Art School Confidential. I really liked the very very end as it allowed an otherwise odd storytelling make its point.
I finished up Disc 1 of Season 1 of City of Men. Not as good of City of God (but what is?) but very high quality TV that reminded me a little of The Wire.
Finally, I really enjoyed A Prairie Home Companion. I’m a huge fan of GK so I knew I’d like it. Lots of good and fun performances. And watching it way up here where there isn’t much difference between Minnesota and Wisconsin made it all the better.
Still have Wicker Man, Syrianna, Capote, and Lucky Number Slevin. I fear those will mostly be a let down after the first group.
Save yourself some time and just watch the highlight reel from The Wicker Man on Youtube. You get everything entertaining from the movie in about 4 minutes, otherwise it’s pretty pointless.
I always feel some trepidation posting here in the boy’s club… but since I’m usually ignored, here goes.
I’m not trying to pick a fight, but I was under-whelmed by Dreamgirls, as were my female companions on a recent viewing. Oh, we thought it was … entertaining … and well done, but we just didn’t have a particular urge to rave. Eddie Murphy was fun to watch and good, Beyonce [or however she spells her name] is a mediocre actress, Jennifer Hudson is a great find… and Jamie Foxx I can do without ever again, please.
I loved Children of Men and can’t understand why anyone would want to watch an inferior pirated copy on a TV. It begs for the big screen, dark theater immersion experience.
I have zilch hope that Inland Empire will make it into my local Florida theaters, but one can hope. I’m a fan of Lynch without apology and your comments on the film intrigue me.
DreamgirlZ was just “i liked it”, not Motown or Bluesy enough to make it feel authenticated for me to say I loved it in retrospect.
You want a piece of me Cadavra, you Atmospherium-grubbing, cave-dwelling rack of bones?! You’re not a Hot-Blogger, a TEPID blogger at best.
Well, you used the F word so I got upset.
I really wish Maradona was being released earlier–did someone tell me recently it would be at Berlin? I like that festival, but haven’t been for a few years š
I really want to see Inland Empire. I love Harry Dean Stanton, may he stay alive forever to make movies. He and John Cazale, have & had respectively, the best eyes (male) ever to grace a movie screen.
“What did those of us who saw it in theaters do to deserve the same punishment?”
well Jeff, congratulations, you picked the first Real fight of the thread. The bigger punishment for me was Dahlia, but I can see where many wouldn;t like Dreamgirls too, esp if not into musicals.
Lota: I once described Hary Dean Stanton’s eyes as looking like roadmaps to Purgatory.
I keep having the feeling that Inland Empire won’t make it to Australian cinemas until 2010. I have pretty much accepted the fact that to see the new film from my favourite director, I’m going to have to buy the DVD from America when it is released. Sad, but probably true. Very sad.
I watched Lady in the Water the other day. Very strange movie. I didn’t hate it anywhere near as much as some people, but I didn’t like it. There was some good stuff in there – i got caught up in the whole solving-the-mystery bit and I continue to believe that Shyamalan can direct scenes perfectly, but it’s the connecting of these scenes where he trips up.
Also watched Bandidas. Silly popcorn fun and better than a lot of the big Hollywood action movies from 2006. Why this got dumped on DVD is beyond me because there’s plenty to sell. They could’ve easily recouped their budget in cinemas (it only cost $35mil). Oh well.
Hopefully seeing Dreamgirls on Tuesday, Pan’s Labyrinth too. Eep. We’re getting a bunch of prestige movies earlier than usual, not March or April like usual.
“It’s actually the original music that left me the coldest. The stand-out number, “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” still packs a punch, but so little else does.”
Hmm…I have the soundtrack in fact listening to it now and if I recall, it’s a Broadway show and it won best musical score (6 tony awards). I don’t know if there is one Broadway show where the songs are really standouts, in fact, I can’t remember one song from Chicago…if I tried I probably could…and Phantom of the Opera only had two standout songs…so I think that’s par for the course with Broadway shows…and of course the newer songs would be more memorable, they were written like – yesterday!
“You either force them to goto the theaters or make them wait for the dvd.” I’m not in the business so I don’t qualify, but every DVD I’ve ever owned is sub-par to going to the movie and listening/watching to the sound quality and visualness of it all. So if DG is ‘robbed’ of certain qualities – please let’s be fair – all of them are!
“At this point, after so many years, is anyone under the delusion that the oscar race is just like a political race. Whoever pumps the most money into the campaign usually wins.” There are some of us who would like to think that this is the true ‘race’ that isn’t tainted and bribed…if we don’t have that belief, what’s left to believe?
Did anyone notice that last Wednesday, “Dreamgirls” was the #1 box office film in the country? It lasted one day, but it happened.
I noticed that DG was #1, it’s getting stomped by Stomp the Yard.
Szasa – Back to the memorable songs – I can’t believe you didn’t like “one night only”, damn, that song is a standard and it’s played year after year at event openings. Henry Krieger got paid for that song.
The CD is #1.
folks – I have seen other movies too. My next best is Departed if DG doesn’t get nom’d. I saw Pan’s and while I thought it was very engaging, I had a problem with the ending (spoiler) with the child getting killed….I know it’s fantasy, but I think that’s going to be very disturbing to the public. I thought it was filmed very well and was very fluid. Other than that, I don’t know if it’s the ‘best’ foreign movie. The foreign movie that really effected me was “Water”, boy…I didn’t know about that life and the ending of Water was so hopeful. I wish it would have gotten a bigger push.
“in fact, I can’t remember one song from Chicago…”
Wow. That’s just… wow.
However, I agree that Water was fantasic. The ending at the train station was a stunner, wasn’t it? It grossed $3.2mil, which is great as foreign films go.
Oh, and also, who’s checked out the Sunshine trailer at the bottom of IMDb’s main page? Love it. There’s some stunning images in that. Looks like Danny Boyle’s done it again, but will mainstream audiences bite?
That shot on one of the characters being shot into a room and against the camera, essentially, is oddly fascinating to watch. I don’t know why.
LMS just won the DGA
I don’t think so. From the DGA website:
“The winner will be named at the 59th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, February 3, 2007, at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles.”
Now that’s a shocker.
Ah, never mind.
Lota, I was not starting a fight, merely stating that one could have a second-class experience and pay full ticket price for it. I think our respective takes on the movie are basically the same, except you like it a little more than me. But you’re right, there are some genres that I just don’t get into: romantic comedies are at the top of the list, and then musicals.
By the way, on my recently-purchased DVD of The Black Dahlia, there are some featurettes which include interview footage with James Ellroy and he seems to be satisfied with how the film came out. No accounting for taste.
Funny, I thought LMS won the PGA…
Anyhow, let the backlash begin.
*With apologies to Dorothy Parker
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
A medley of extemporanea;
And DREAMGIRLS as Best Picture can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania
Dreamgirls was so boring and this is coming from a gay guy. You know, the kind that likes singing and dancing like David Poland?
Children of Men is the best movie that I see this year and it’s sad that all of the critics and awards people seem to ignore it. Let’s gear up for Babel, this year’s Trash, I mean Crash, to win again. How boring.
Chicago, you need to make your spoiler warnings just a little more visible. Thanks a lot.
I’m with you, Eric. I wasn’t upset about your thoughts on D-GIRLS, Chicago, but your ruining the ending of PAN would start a real fight if we end up in the same room together.
As for your pre-screwing-up-the-movie-for-everyone thoughts:
The film was my first experience with DREAMGIRLS. Never saw the musical. Never listened to the album. I vaguely remember seeing a number from it on some show a long time ago, but I can’t be certain. Which is just to say that, despite when the individual songs were written, they had an equal shot at being memorable when I watched the film. Their freshness date had nothing to do with it. It’s just how I felt. Sorry if we disagree.
I think just having one memorable song is below par for the course. Yes, you tend to have one song stuck in your head after any given musical, but there needs to be strong support behind it. For me, DREAMGIRLS felt very pastiche and trite. Kinda like LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS without the clever lyrics. Yes, I’m aware of the awards the show has won and the money it has earned over the years. I’m not saying because I didn’t care for it that it has no worth. I’m just expressing an opinion. Sorry it gets under your skin to such an extent. But long ago I realized that I couldn’t expect people to think exactly like I did and it’s been a great relief to me. The person I saw DREAMGIRLS with liked it a lot more than I did and yet we’re still friends and have many other things to talk about.
One of those things will probably be how much better PAN would have been without the ending being ruined by a stranger on the Internet, so you remain close to my heart, Chicago.
I agree with Kamikaze on “Water”. It would have done better in theaters but Regal, the largest US chain, pigeonholed it as a Bollywood picture. (The version I saw did not open with the Fox Searchlight logo or Fox fanfare.)
Yep, I hadn’t seen Pan yet either and I read the spoiler before I registered the warning.
Only film I was really wanting to catch that I haven’t yet, and now that I know what happens…..
I fucking hate the internet sometimes.
Well Chicago, at least you tried to post a warning, unlike Wells, but it was weak.
How to post a spoiler warning on the internet….
Before you post the spoiler, you can’t just “warn” us by typing “spoiler” in the middle of your sentence in lower case type!
To properly convey a spoiler – type the word like this –
SPOILER
(drop down a few spaces and repeat)
SPOILER!
(drop down a few more spaces and repeat again for us A.D.D. readers, or dummies)
SPOILER MUTHAFUCKAS! (Muthafuckas is optional, but the spelling of it must be verbatim)
Then after a few more spaces…. type your spoiler.
This gives us all more adequate time to register the context and avoid what we want to avoid.
Of course I’m trying to throw a little humor in with this cause I’m so bummed about reading the Pan’s ending; but in all seriousness, props to Poland. He has always been exemplary in his spoiler warnings in his columns.
Seriously people. PLEASE Make your spoiler postings more obvious. Not all of us can catch the releases as soon as they are out of the gate.
So bummmed about Pan’s…..
Lota: any time, any place. I’ll bring the wine. š
It’s not the first time some asshole ruined Pan’s ending either. THX, for what it’s worth, I still loved Pan’s, in spite knowing the ending.
Yeah Spoilers really stink big time for those who REQUIRE the big screen experience and don;t currently have access to private screening rooms. Half a page after *******MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS****** would help.
I didn;t Motherf*ckin see Pan’s before that either, you chump.
Well Cadavra, since Dave want a fight thread, as far as fight movies go, I think Cadavra vs Lota would be a better movie than the infernally low-brow Alien vs Predator except how many have seen Lost Skeleton of Cadavra or Island of lost souls. Probably too few. WINE? Don;t know what wine would do to a half human like me– it might accelerate the de-evolution process, (howl at the moon, choking bouncers with their bling etc). So far I haven’t been thrown out of a place, but it seems easy to get chucked out of a bar in LA, unless you’re a spoiled underage celebrity drunk–then they let you stay if you get your tab!
“roadmaps to Purgatory” is a pretty good descriptive element for HDS’s eyes Joe…maybe roadmaps IN purgatory would be even better (then he won’t have to serve there after death…and if he isn;t Catholic he wouldn’t be expected to go there anyway.)
Lota, I was thinking five minutes of fighting, followed by five hours of making up! Rowr!
Wow, I’m so glad I skipped the bit about the ending for Pan’s. I’m not sure how I skipped it but I did.
Five Hours?!
i have to work and see relatives in California, Cadavra so I think I won;t be allowed [Sheesh 5 Hours? Even the lost skeletons are on Viagra in LA too!]
Lota, the time-span isn’t chiseled in stone. š
Sign my petition:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/19876a/petition.html
I’m petitioning the Oscars to put child actors in a separate category for acting. If you agree, please click link; thanks all.
i think talented kids can hold their own. sometimes it’s the only time they can act for some actors–and they’re washed up by the time they are 16, but at least they had a chance to do work evaluated as the best with the other actors and not being relegated to being “kids”. studios can put them in for best actor/tress & supporting, and so they should if there’s merit.
…and don’t post no more spoilers
Cadavra, i already agreed to share SHiner bock with my Sound man friend in LA. he won’t like me ditching him for a skeleton and wine. Unless Poland chaperones with his ’45.
Dave should have a block party for his gangstas and peoples
If there was a special Oscar category for Best Child Actor, all the stage moms in Hollywood would be even more frightening than they are now. Probably not a good idea.
Can you imagine what it would be like if DP hosted…I don’t know what you would call it. Movie City Fest? HotCon? Either lots of arguing or lots of awkward, awkward silences.
Lota: okay, fine. But you’ve blown your big chance to watch my pristine print of SH! THE OCTOPUS!
awww. how did you get a pristine print of that film? rob the vaults? it’s a really neat movie and cool special effects. Do you have a copy of al-Ard too?
Jeff–YOU will never have an awkward silence. If it’s a bock party people can eat, drink and talk or not talk.
Lota, I am quite shy in real life.
I was just reading David’s current Oscar column and I have to take issue with one thing, the notion that you have to be consistent in explaining why a movie didn’t get nominated for Best Picture: that if Dreamgirls wasn’t picked because ‘it just wasn’t good enough’ then the same is true of United 93 or Pan’s Labyrinth or whatever.
This is silly. It’s like if I said “United 93 was too intense and reminded its viewers too much of Sept. 11 to get nominated. The same is true of Dreamgirls.”
Lota: Well, it IS 16mm…
Not sure what “al-Ard” is.
Jeff. I am sure Stella would talk to you at “the party” (maybe Dave could have a party based on Sellers’ The Party. I’ll sing the CLaudine Longet song. DOn’t worry Dave, we’ll wash the elephant Outside). STella’s seen me and knows i won;t use the death beam on anybody. not yet anyway.
Well Cadavra, a pristine copy al-Ard is perhaps not a fair request unless you are an Egyptian. A wealthy cinephile elderly egyptian. A great movie (in the same league as Battle of Algiers, but little seen) before Chahine tried to write his own stuff. He did part of Lumi
i mean the 1937 history is made at night
Is one child actor being nominated every few years that important to you that you would waste your precious time and start a petition?